User talk:SmithBlue

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WIki-life is very reduced at preent - hopwe to have time again in near-medium term Please feel free to leave a message - I'll get round to it eventually. It could be years before I read it though.SmithBlue (talk) 04:27, 14 May 2008 (UTC) SmithBlue (talk) 05:23, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

WP - blah

The less time I spend here the happier I am. Good luck to you all and get out as soon as you can. Go dancing. Or play music. Meditate. Agitate. SmithBlue (talk) 05:18, 9 February 2016 (UTC)

On BLP violations

If you can show verifiable content from RS that Person B, whether pro or anti vaccination, is an ice addict psychopath who owns a pedophile brothel and is a ISIS supporter, then go ahead and write the article. Just ask and I'll support you.

If you have strong feelings around vaccination and you have to misrepresent sources, use non-RS ranting blogs and OR to create an attack piece that matches your view of the subject then either you are supported by WP community standards or you not.

I do wish that it was obvious to everyone whether you are supported by WP community standards. So far you have been supported by WP community inaction. Especially the on-going inaction of administrators. SmithBlue (talk) 02:17, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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Your edits, few as they are, show a worrying tendency towards promoting fringe views, notably the refuted OPV-AIDS hypothesis. You need to be aware that this is not acceptable on Wikipedia. Guy (Help!) 10:25, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

As stated already my edits do not show any such tendency. There is one single recent edit that shows my attempts to have OPV-AIDS presented inline with WP community standards. If you are convinced otherwise please initiate whatever mechanism is in place to prevent, what you mistypify as, me disrupting WP. SmithBlue (talk) 22:51, 15 March 2016 (UTC)

Having stumbled across your edit at OPV-AIDS I can now understand the source of your error. I do not present Dildine's article "http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/what-really-caused-aids-epidemic", as a RS. Rather I present it as a catalyse for checking of WP:OPV-AIDS for inadvertent errors. I apologise if my intention was not clear. I have edited to make my intentions explicit on WP:OPV-AIDS/Talk. (Though the discovery of "Tools for Critical Thinking about Biology" and the variances between it and current WP:OPV-AIDS probably should be dealt with first.) Please be clearer about exactly which edits concern you in future comms - vague claims of "tendency" are not helpful. SmithBlue (talk) 00:20, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

• - Note to uninvolved admins -

Below is the single (OPV related) post that User:JzG interpreted as "a worrying tendency towards promoting fringe views" and then posted the Arb Con warning template here and disrupted an article talk page section here[1]. I am disappointment that a skilled and capable admin should engage in such behavior. User:JzG's actions on this matter look like bullying to me. And function to lower the standing of all WP administrators. I suggest that, to protect the good functioning of WP, that User:JzG is counselled to learn to recognise when emotions are over-riding sound judgement. (If you are incapable of recognising the difference between introducing an outside review of a WP article and putting it forward as a source then please discuss this with me.) SmithBlue (talk) 22:39, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

See WP:NOTTHEM. Guy (Help!) 23:05, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Curious. I've got an experienced WP admin refering me to a page on Blocks with no explanation, after that same admin has put a Arb Com template on my Talk page for reasons that don't make sense. SmithBlue (talk) 23:13, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

Ahhh the light dawns. "Talk about yourself, not others" is the section refered to. Strange, given that Guy is probably responding to my most recent post[2], that post was about the actions of someone who is failing to meet RS on a BLP. And I had refered them to highly experienced and skilled admin Guy for guidance as I've seen that the struggling editor holds Guy in high regard. SmithBlue (talk) 23:46, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

OPV AIDS hypothesis:Talk:Outside review of article lede

Some editors here might be interested in an outside review of the first 2 paragraphs of this article's lede.

Short version "Many factual errors are squeezed into these few words."

Find the long version 1/3 the way down the page at Good luck and edit safely. SmithBlue (talk) 05:14, 9 February 2016 (UTC)